Girls Status and Policies in Indonesia

Desti Handayani will focus on the girls status and policies in Indonesia. She will firstly focus on the current status on girls and the policies to increase status of Indonesian s girls. In the first part, she will highlight the issues and challenges faced by Indonesian girls, which include education, nutrition, risk behavior, early marriage, employment and violence against women. In the second part, she will highlight the national medium term development plan as a policy direction and strategy related to adolescent development. Specifically, she will focus on the 5 fields; education, adolescent health and family planning, employment and entrepreneurship, youth development, and violence against women.